Munich, Germany, Abengoa Solar recently signed an agreement to join as a founder member the Desertec Industrial Initiative, a project born under the auspices of the Club of Rome and other institutions. This project seeks to develop renewable energy production in the desert regions of Northern Africa and the Middle East for both local use [...]
Solar Millennium AG, Erlangen, has restructured in the US to react to the rapidly growing demand for solar thermal power generation. Moving forward, all activities in the US market will be consolidated into one new joint venture, Solar Trust of America, LLC (STA). Solar Millennium owns a total of 70 percent in this JV via [...]
Solutia Inc. announced today that it will be supplying Therminol VP-1 synthetic heat transfer fluid to a new 470 MW hybrid solar plant in Ain-Ben-Mathar, Morocco and a 170 MW hybrid solar plant in Hassi R’Mel, Algeria. Both plants have 20 MW each of power output capacity from solar thermal oil-based parabolic trough collector fields [...]
Tessera Solar has been selected by Riverside County (California) to develop solar energy projects on county‐owned land at closed landfills and on undeveloped land adjacent to County airports. Optiflex Properties & Development LLC (Optiflex), a real estate and technology development company, is partnering with Tessera Solar to co‐develop and co‐finance the projects. Optiflex specializes in [...]
Company’s Breakthrough Technology Enables New Blueprint for Solar Thermal Deployment Lancaster, Calif. – August 5, 2009 – With 24,000 mirrors glimmering under the Antelope Valley summer sun, eSolar, a leading provider of modular, scalable solar thermal power technology, today unveiled its 5-megawatt (MW) Sierra SunTower solar power plant. The full-scale power plant, the only power [...]